Reinforced angle-bar for rail-joints.



B. WOLHAUPTER.

REINFORCED ANGLE BAR FOR RAIL JOINTS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 18, 1911; y

Patented Dec. 0, 1911.

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B. WOLHAUPTER.

REINFORCED ANGLE BAR FOR RAIL JOINTS.

APPLIGATIOH FILED HAP-.18, 1911.

Patented Dec. 5, 1911.

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UNETED SJTATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN W'OLHAUPTER, OF NEVJ ROCHELLE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE RAIL JOINT COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

REINFORCED ANGLE-BAR, FOR RAILJOINTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 5, 1911.

Application filed March 18, 1911. Serial No. 615,309.

To a whom -1' i may concern:

Be it known that l, BENJAMIN our-turran, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Rcciielle, in the county of \Vcstchester andv State of New York, have in vented certain new and use tul Improvements in Reinforced Angle-Bars for Rail-Joints, of which the following is'a specification.

This invention. relates to an improvement in rail joints, and more particularly to the design and construction of angle bars of the reinforced type.

To this end the invention has in view an improved construction of rail joint embodying in its organization a simple and practical design of reinforced angle bar capable of application to the rails with the same facility and readiness as the ordinary forms of splice bars or fish plates, while at the same time having a substantial center reinforcement that secures a maximum strength of bar with a minimum amount of material, and also including a firm and substantial base support for the rail ends of the joint to rest upon-, thus combining in a joint bar all of the desirable features of a central girder reinforcement for the bar, and a base support for the rail ends.

A special object of the invention is to provide a rail base support of novel form and arrangement, that is to say, in the form of a girder clement presenting its edge to the downward thrust or pressure of the rails and hence resisting all bending strains in a most ettective manner whereby the rail joint as an entirety secures to a maximum extent. the stifi'ness obtained from a deep girder section with the additional strength and distribution of load obtained from a rail-base suport.

\Vith these and other objects in view, which will more readily appear to those familiar with the art as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter more fully described, illustrated and claimed.

The essential features of the invention involved in the carrying out of the objects above indicated, are necessarily susceptible of structural change without departing from the scope of the invention, but a pr ferred embodiment thereof is shown in the accompanv ng drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a rail joint constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the joint at the center thereof. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. l of a modified form of the joint. Fig. i is a transverse sectional view of the modified form of joint shown in Fig. 3, the section being taken at the center of the joint.

Like references designate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

As shown in the drawings, a rail joint embodying the present invention comprises, in com. :1 ation with the rails 1 and 2, the oppositely arranged side angle bars 3 and the usual series of joint bolts i. Hence, the invention involves or requires no change in the general form and manner of setting up the ordinary types of rail joints employing angle bars or splice bars.

Referring particularly to the design and construction of each angle bar 3, the same essentially consists otthe upright splice member 5 formed at its upper edge with the usual head (3 engaging beneath the rail head and at its lower edge provided with the inclined outturned foot piece 7 which overlies and rests upon the inclined top surface of the rail flange, said foot piece including at its outer edge the usual spiking flange 7. These are the usual elements of the conventional angle bar for rail joints, but in addition thereto the present invention conte1nplates the feature of providing each angle bar 3 with a depending stifi'ening girder flange 8 which is sheared off along each end from the body of he bar as indicated at 8 so as to provide for the proper placing of the ties and at the same time dispose the said girder flange centrally between. the ends of the bar and hence at the center of the joint.

Tle depending girder flange 8 is formed integrally with the foot piece 7 and is bent downwardly from such toot piece so as to lie within, and project below the edge of the rail flange. but the present invention is notrestrictcd to the dimensions or shape of the girder fiangc nor to the angle bar nor to any particular angular position for the girder flange. but is desired to provide additional strength and reinforcement, the said girder" flange may be formed along its lower edge with a reinforcing rib 9.

A distinctive feature of the present invention resides in cutting out from the metal body of the girder flange 8 an integral secright tion 10 and forcibly pressing said section out of the opening 11 left thereby in the girder flange up to a position where it lies in a substantially vertical plane with its upper edge Hat-ranged to present the supporting surface that engages beneath and supports the rails at the bottom thereof. It will thus be seen that the rail supporting base sections 10 of the angle bars are in the form of girder elements arranged upright and presenting their edges to the downward thrust or pressure of the rails with the result of most effectively resisting the bending strains incident to the pressure of the load. In this connection it may also be noted that the up ight base supporting girder elements 10 lie 111 the vertical plane ot the edge reinforcements 9 at the lower edges of the girder flanges 8, and in order that the hill depth of the girder may be preserved, there remains at the bottom of the cut-out opening 11, in

each bar, an intact lower chord of which the reinforcement 9 forms a part.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in Figs. 3 and l of the drawings, there is suggested the modification of cutting and pressing out from each girder flange two upone respectively for each rail end. In this modification it will therefore be seen that the rail base supporting sections or girders are arranged respectively at opposite sides of the joint between the meeting ends of the rails, while in the construction shown in base supporting girder elements 10.

Figs. 1 and 2 the single girder elements? bridge the joint betweenthe meeting ends of the rails, and engage and support both rail ends.

I claim:

1. An angle bar for rail joints provided with an integral stiti'cning girder and an upright rail base supporting element displaced from the bod of the girder and presenting its edge to the bottom of the rails.

2. An angle bar for rail joints provided with a central depending stitl'ening girder and with a substantially vertically disposed rail base supporting element displaced from the body of thegirder.

3. A reinforced angle bar for rail joints provided with a depending girder flange, and with an upright base supporting girder ele ment cut out of and displaced from the flange and having its upper edge arranged to engage beneath the rails, the girder element lying in the ertical plane of the lower edge of the girder flange.

-it. A IQlliftjl'COtl angle bar for rail joints provided with a centrally located depending girder tlange, and with a vertically disposed rail base supporting girder element cut out of and displaced from the girder flange, said girder flange l aving an integral lower chord at the bottom of the opening from which the girder element is displaced.

In testimony whereof I hereunto attix my t signature in the presence of two witnesses BIZXJAMIX WOLHAUPTER.

i Witnesses:

E. L. SCHERMERIIORX, K. MCNALLY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

